milling large oak need advice.

[kinderscout]

Milling large oak 22ft long 56 wide.we kept hitting hard spots in the timber witch bent the bar stopping me milling.

[Rob D]

I know there are hard spots etc in wood - but really one of the advantages of the chainsaw mill is that it will chew through them.

 

 

Take your saw out the mill - dismantle the bar and chain - dress the bar rails, clean the groove, reassemble, sharpen the chain and get all the teeth equal in length and then check the depth guages.

 

 

Do all the other maintenace as well such as clean air filter etc... Take your time over it and be thorough. See if that works.

 

 

[kinderscout]

Cheer rob, it is going to be a long night.need to use it in the morning 😢

[kinderscout]

Cheer rob, it is going to be a long night.need to use it in the morning 😢

[Big J]

Hold on four weeks and send it up to me and I'll mill it on the new bandsaw!

[billpierce]

Hold on four weeks and send it up to me and I'll mill it on the new bandsaw!

 

that'll be fairly big then?

[kinderscout]

Yes its big 56 dia 25ft long.turned it on its side now so it reducing the slabbing size to 42. First time doing a large oak and the inexperience is showing.

Would it fit in your new mill big J . We are reducing the length to 16ft Saturday as the the farmer would like to sow a crop.

[Big J]

Yep. 42 inches is no problem through and through. Will do 47. Max overall log diameter 54", but more if one side is squared off like that.

 

Very nice lump of oak there.

[se7enthdevil]

why was it not quartered, it would have been easier to manage and would have made some cracking quartersawn boards at 25"+ wide.

[kinderscout]

Am I right in saying that you want as little as possible sapwood in the end product ie beams.